The sample hook to prepare the commit message before a commit allows users to opt-in to add the sign-off to the commit message. The sign-off is added at a place that isn't consistent with the "-s" option of "git commit". Further, it could go out of view in certain cases.
Add the sign-off in a way similar to "-s" option of "git commit" using git's interpret-trailers command. It works well in all cases except when the user invokes "git commit" without any arguments. In that case manually add a new line after the first line to ensure it's consistent with the output of "-s" option. Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91...@gmail.com> --- templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample index eb5912163..87d770592 100755 --- a/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample +++ b/templates/hooks--prepare-commit-msg.sample @@ -32,4 +32,8 @@ SHA1=$3 # esac # SOB=$(git var GIT_AUTHOR_IDENT | sed -n 's/^\(.*>\).*$/Signed-off-by: \1/p') -# grep -qs "^$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" || echo "$SOB" >> "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" +# git interpret-trailers --in-place --trailer "$SOB" "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" +# if test -z "$COMMIT_SOURCE" +# then +# @PERL_PATH@ -i.bak -pe 'print "\n" if !$first_line++' "$COMMIT_MSG_FILE" +# fi -- 2.13.2.957.g457671ade
